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Inspiration from PepysDiary.com

March 30, 2007 By Ben Brumfield

The blog version of Pepys Diary shows the shows the power of an online community to provide context for a historical document. To take a page at random, Saturday, 26 March 1664 has explanations for legislative references and 17th century English usage provided by end-users through unstructured annotations.. … [Read more...] about Inspiration from PepysDiary.com

Inspiration from Wikipedia

March 30, 2007 By Ben Brumfield

Wikipedia has been my inspiration for simplifying the problem of indexing and annotation through wiki-style markup. The double-brace syntax for creating hyperlinks is incredibly easy to use — put braces around a phrase and it becomes a hyperlink. Add a pipe in the middle and you can differentiate the link target from the hyperlinked text. The "what links here" feature is an … [Read more...] about Inspiration from Wikipedia

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